Amazon Has Largest A.I. Platform in the World, Its Machine Learning Guru Boasts

Matt Wood, employee number three at Amazon's European offices for its AWS cloud computing outfit, is the head of the "deep learning" efforts at AWS.

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Amazon (AMZN) today kicked off its user conference for its AWS cloud computing service, “AWS Summit,” in New York, and I stopped by the Javitz convention center where it was being held to meet with one of the keynote speakers, Matt Wood, who is the director of product management for the "deep learning" efforts within artificial intelligence at AWS.

Wood started early with AWS -- he joined in 2010 and was employee number three at its European offices -- a business that was started by Amazon in 2007 and that today...

Amazon Has Largest A.I. Platform in the World, Its Machine Learning Guru Boasts

Amazon (AMZN) today kicked off its user conference for its AWS cloud computing service, “AWS Summit,” in New York, and I stopped by the Javitz convention center where it was being held to meet with one of the keynote speakers, Matt Wood, who is the director of product management for the &quot;deep learning&quot; efforts within artificial intelligence at AWS.

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